Introduction: PPH and postoperative pancreatic fistula (POPF) are the most life-threatening complications after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD). The aim of this study is to compare incidence both between two reconstruction techniques: PG PJ. Method: 274 Patients undergoing PD were included in a prospective database. Dunking with interrupted sutures PDS 4/0 on rear side stomach was initially preffe...

The incentives that durability offers to a monopolist to price discriminate over time and the related difficulties that secondhand markets create in these situations have been well recognized in the economics literature. The conventional problem for the monopolist is that, having sold a durable good, there is an incentive to reduce price later to bring into the market those consumers who would ...

The role of banking and nance in the Golden Age of European growth (1950-1973) is very little known and widely underestimated. This paper studies the French system of economic planning and investment-based strategy that enhanced medium and long term nancing (called 'invest-ment credit'). First, I describe the new institutions that were built after WWII to organize credit allocation and especial...

Anatomic variations of the portal vein (PV) and bile duct (BD) are more common on the right lobe as compared with left lobe grafts in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). We recently experienced a case of LDLT for hepatocellular carcinoma combined with liver cirrhosis secondary to hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus infection. The only available donor had right lobe graft with type IV...

Intraabdominal adhesion formation after abdominal surgery is still a surgical dilemma. It‟s seen in more than 50% of abdominal surgeries and has a potential of complicating future abdominal surgical interventions. In this retrospective study, we aimed to evaluate the prevalance and severity of intraabdominal adhesions in emergency laparotomies patients operated before. One hundred and one patie...

We present a case report of a 59-year-old man, who received a blood group identical living unrelated kidney graft. This was his second kidney transplantation. Pretransplant T-cell crossmatch resulted negative. B-cell crossmatch, which is not considered a strict contraindication for transplantation, resulted positive. During surgery no abnormalities occurred. Four hours after the transplantation...

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Agents situated in dynamic environments bene t from having a repertoire of plans, supplied in advance, that permit them to rapidly generate appropriate sequences of actions in response to important events. When agents can form teams, new problems emerge regarding the representation and execution of joint actions. In this paper we introduce a language for representing joint plans for teams of ag...